Alexandra Crampton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. She brings an anthropological perspective to applied fields such as gerontological social work, elder mediation, family court mediation, negotiation, and restorative justice. As a visiting scholar, she will be convening a panel discussion on cross cultural responses to professional and policy work in gerontology, and writing up past research on elder mediation in Ghana and the United States.